P&O Cruises Extends Pause in Operations in Australia and New Zealand

MIAMI, July 22, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — P&O Cruises nowadays announced it was extending its rolling pause in operations throughout Australia and New Zealand to Oct 29, 2020 in reaction to the present affect of the world wide pandemic on the way we travel and holiday break.

P&O Cruises President Sture Myrmell stated although every person hoped sailings would resume soon, it had develop into ever more obvious that a lot more time was wanted for society to reinstate many modes of travel and group gatherings.

“The path to society reopening absolutely is continuing to evolve – and cruising will return when science and public health and fitness align and men and women once again really feel at ease to meet up with.  With this in intellect, we have reviewed the present end day of our pause in cruise operations,” Mr Myrmell stated.

“We will carry on to use this time to liaise with authorities, public health and fitness industry experts and many others in the field to develop improved public health and fitness actions for when the time is right to resume sailing.

“This is by significantly the most complicated time the travel sector has at any time skilled. Even so, like so many of our faithful attendees and companions, we look ahead to much better periods forward when we can cruise once again. We thank every person for their dependable loyalty, endurance and goodwill.”

The hottest improvements in operations are:

Australia

In Australia, P&O Cruises will increase its pause in operations to Oct 29, 2020 (inclusive) – an further 42 times to what had formerly been announced. 

It will have an effect on the next cruises:

Pacific Explorer: X040, X041, X042, X043, X044N, X045N, X045P and X046

Pacific Dawn: W047, W048, W049, W050, W051, W052 and W053

Pacific Aria: A048, A049, A050, and A051

New Zealand

In New Zealand, P&O Cruises will return for its following period of sailings departing from Auckland in 2021. Additional cruises impacted by this new pause are:

Pacific Aria: A042, A043, A044, A045, A046, and A047

Other cruises

As a final result of the prolonged pause in operations and intercontinental travel constraints, P&O will terminate Pacific Adventure’s inaugural eighteen-night time cruise (V059) from Singapore to Sydney.

Compensation for cancelled cruises from July 23, 2020

P&O will make direct get in touch with with attendees whose cruises have been impacted to permit them know of this advancement and to apologise for the disruption. All attendees are entitled to a comprehensive refund or reward onboard credit score if they opt for a foreseeable future cruise credit score.  P&O will pay out refunds again to travel agents for attendees who booked as a result of that channel.

P&O will safeguard travel agent commissions on all bookings for cancelled cruises that were paid in comprehensive and for the overall volume of the foreseeable future cruise credits.

Guests with bookings impacted by the pause in operations, can keep track of the development of their foreseeable future cruise credit score or refund request via a new monitoring instrument located on P&O’s web page.

Source P&O Cruises